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> so if she's going to survive at all her stinger has to not have barbs. The queen almost certainly has to use her stinger when she exits her cocoon: to kill th
by the_af 2y ago
> so if she's going to survive at all her stinger has to not have barbs. The queen almost certainly has to use her stinger when she exits her cocoon: to kill ther other queens that are about to hatch or have hatched already
But in this particular case the queen is no different from worker bees, right? They wouldn't die either from stinging other bees...
- cryptonector 2y agoMy understanding is that the barbs in the stingers don't get stuck in insects, but I don't know if that's a fact. At any rate the queen is sometimes irreplaceable, so she needs every survival advantage possible.